Swap a tenant space's worst materials for Red-List-free ones, 5665 W Wilshire block.

Tenant improvements on this block still default to Red-List materials — vinyl flooring, high-VOC paints and adhesives — that off-gas into workers' air for years. Each swap-out is a bounded Materials-Petal repair.

Where

5600–5700 block of W Wilshire Blvd (public right-of-way + typical commercial conditions), Los Angeles, CA 90036 · Open the map

Pay

$110 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after photos + product documentation (Declare or equivalent) + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-16

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Inventory the space's finish materials with the tenant and photograph each target (flooring, paint, sealants, ceiling tile); rank by exposure.
2. Source Red-List-free replacements (Declare-labeled or equivalent) and record the product documentation.
3. Remove the worst-ranked finish and install its replacement per manufacturer spec. If any existing material is suspected hazardous (old resilient flooring, pre-1978 paint), do not sand, scrape or disturb it — stop, photograph, and route that layer to a licensed assessor; swap only what is safe to swap.
4. Photograph the finished swap and file the product documentation as the healthy-materials record.

What counts as done

• Ranked material inventory with photos
• Product documentation for each replacement (Red-List-free/Declare)
• Before/after photos of the completed swap

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Living Building Challenge, Materials Petal. The Materials Petal rests on a simple, radical idea: build with nothing that harms the people who make it, live with it, or inherit it when the building comes down. The Challenge keeps a Red List of the worst chemical offenders, and mastery means knowing your materials the way a good cook knows ingredients: where they came from, what is in them, where they go next. That literacy is learned by hand, on real jobs. This packet, choosing the safer product and recording exactly what was used, is how the learning starts.